Basket-splint machine



(No Model.)

I s. OAKMA BASKET SPLINT MACHINE.

Patented Feb. 15', 1884.

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WIT N ESSEE UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL OAKMAN, OF MELROSE, MASSACHUSETTS.

BASKET-SPLINT MACHINE.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No..292,942, dated February" 5, 1884.

Application filed November 19, 1893. (No model.)

f0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL OAKMAN, of

Melrose, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Art of Making Wood Splints for Wicker-\Vork, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to making by machinery thin narrow strips of wood, suitable for use purposes in of the wood after it has passed under the mold- Fi s'. '3 and 4 represent the shape and appearalIce tion with the knives F, to cut the molded wood (see Figs. 3 and 4) into the strips, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6.

H, Fig. 1, represents an opening through which the finished strips pass. The obj eot of this is simply to keep the finished strips from spreading and becoming entangled with each other or with the machinery.

The method of making wicker-work splints consists in taking thin riven sheets of wood, such as basket-makers use, (see Fig. 2,) pass ing it through the molding-1nachine B B O D D, and then cutting it into strips suitable for use.

In a machine for making wicker work splints, the combination of the feed-rolls B B, the cutter-head 0, whereby the riven wood is formed into a sheet, flat on one side and out nearly through by corrugations on the other side, with the corrugated feed-roll D, smoothroll D, pressure-roll E, and series of knives F, all arranged to operate substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

SAMUEL OAKMAN, 

